Marienbad 1

Cow Parade (in progress)

Dealing with space, greatly condensed

Depth of Field

The shadow and the texture of the ground are my favorite things.

Eternal Sunshine 1

I've always been interested in memory, layers (both literal and figurative) and ghostly images.  I love movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Last Year at Marienbad because of their ambiguous, ambivalent, plot lines and endings.  What do we choose to remember? Can we erase bad memories at will, and if so, what happens to the good memories? Is it possible to forget that you made such a big decision as falling in love, and must be reminded by a stranger, who is actually your intended? I am embarking on a series of drawings inspired by these themes and questions. The idea is to move away from the film stills, but they are as always, a good place to start.

In Progress: Group (Out of Body Experience)

Group: Out of Body Experience, 2010

Charcoal on Paper.  Based on my friend Krissy's junior high lunch photograph. I'm not sure where it's going yet, but the lunch table could be the same shape as a hoop that a magician levitates a girl through, maybe the dark haired girl in the front?

Detail

It's been a while since I've worked in charcoal and it definitely took some getting used to.  I'm thinking this will be a diptych at least. I just checked out the John Baldessari monograph by Coosje van Bruggen from the Decker Library...it's the same copy I used as an student in art school, but some idiot in the years since has written through it in ballpoint pen. Not over the images, fortunately, but still.

Detail

Mad Men Season 4: Peggy

Peggy, 1964

Peggy's got a brand new hairdo. Marker on watercolor paper. 2010.